OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Ogata Kenzan” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Square Dish with Spring Flowers and Grasses, by Ogata Kenzan

Square Dish with Spring Flowers and Grasses

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Balloon Flowers in a Basket, by Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Balloon Flowers in a Basket

Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Camellia-Shaped Side Dishes (Mukōzuke) with Camellia Patterns, by Ogata Kenzan

Set of Five Camellia-Shaped Side Dishes (Mukōzuke) with Camellia Patterns

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kenzan-style food bowl with design of pine trees, by Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Kenzan-style food bowl with design of pine trees

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Medium Dishes (Chūzara) with Plum-Blossom Patterns, by Ogata Kenzan

Set of Five Medium Dishes (Chūzara) with Plum-Blossom Patterns

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Serving bowl with Kenzan style decoration, unknown Kyoto workshop, by Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Serving bowl with Kenzan style decoration, unknown Kyoto workshop

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, by Ogata Kenzan

Cup

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Box, by Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Box

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Pot, by Ogata Kenzan

Water Pot

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Blue and white flowers on slender stalks, by Inscription and seals of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Blue and white flowers on slender stalks

Inscription and seals of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bellflowers in Basket, by Ogata Kenzan

Bellflowers in Basket

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A Shinto ceremony, by Attributed to Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

A Shinto ceremony

Attributed to Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spouted pouring vessel, by Ogata Kenzan

Spouted pouring vessel

Ogata Kenzan

Public domainThe Met
Snow-laden pine and shrub, by Signature of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Snow-laden pine and shrub

Signature of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · Dated 1741

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Ogata Kenzan

Tray

Ogata Kenzan · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemums, by Seal of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Chrysanthemums

Seal of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reading screen, by Ogata Kenzan

Reading screen

Ogata Kenzan · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Tiger lilies and grass, by Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Tiger lilies and grass

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 1663-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chrysanthemum, by Ogata Kenzan

Chrysanthemum

Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Uzume (Okame) and flowers, by Signature of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Uzume (Okame) and flowers

Signature of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camellia by Water, by Ogata Kenzan

Camellia by Water

Ogata Kenzan · dated 1741

Public domainThe Met
Snow-laden grasses and Snow-laden pine branches, by Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Snow-laden grasses and Snow-laden pine branches

Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743) · 1690-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water jar, by Ogata Kenzan

Water jar

Ogata Kenzan · ca. 1705

Public domainThe Met
Two cups decorated respectively with pine and plum, by Style of Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)

Two cups decorated respectively with pine and plum

Style of Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716) · probably 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 38 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 57 matched · 40 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:21 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.